For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing. . . . Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy. - Peter Schjeldahl

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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Peter Schjeldahl

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing. . . . Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

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Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.

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To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

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I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

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The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

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